Many different reactions I imagine to Madison, Ohio Tight End Nic DiLillo decommitting from Pitt (so much for what his mom wanted) and committing instead to Ohio State once they offered him. I mean, it’s hard to be too offended that he backed out of a verbal to Pitt, when he did the same to Clemson. Plenty of thoughts about how the kid just can’t make up his mind and maybe he just shouldn’t have kept giving verbals if he was continually waiting for a better offer.

On the other hand, maybe the kid is playing the recruiting game correctly. He verballed to the best offer gotten early, then upgraded once and then twice. Each time getting a little closer to home and a bigger name in college football. Ohio State came calling, finally, for him. Arguably, as annoying as it can be to see a kid decommit, at least it was done in late July rather than October or November.

I imagine there will be the standard story about how he always dreamed of playing for tOSU and when the offer came, he couldn’t say no to his dream. Heck, I noted back in late June when his verbal was pending to Pitt that if they offered, he’d probably jump again.

UPDATE: Yep, sure enough courtesy of Gorman’s blog:

“I’m ready to take the heat for committing again, but to see the look on my parents’ face made it worthwhile to me,” DiLillo told the Scout.com Ohio State site. “I’ve never seen them happier. Ohio State is my dream school. What kid doesn’t grow up wanting to be a Buckeye? I know I look like a jerk, but had the Buckeyes offered earlier there never would have been any thought of Pittsburgh or Clemson.”

According to the post, DiLillo and his family also went to Pittsburgh and dropped some cash on Pitt gear along with stopping by to see the coaches  before announcing he changed his mind.

Yesterday at the end of the post about Clermond having charges against him dropped, I was going to rip the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They were the first media outlet to report the story of his arrest back on July 24 when Paul Zeise broke the story on the P-G’s website. And when it was published online, they put it in REALLY BIG LETTERS at the top of the page. So I was a little curious as to why it took them so long to put up the story of his release from the charges. Does the Post-Gazette have some sort of anti-Pitt agenda? (Gasp!)

I decided not to bring it up yesterday, and today I learned that it might have just been a product of a bad week for Mr. Zeise.

In introducing the topic, Pompeani said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is “probably going to suspend [Vick] for the rest of the season, the whole year. Is he right to do that given the fact this guy has not been convicted of anything?” Alexander answered: “Absolutely. When you’re indicted by the federal government, you’re going down. Since 1987 they have a 92 percent conviction rate.”

Zeise took an opposing view. “It’s really a sad day in this country when somehow … Michael Vick would have been better off raping a woman if you look at the outcry of what happened. Had he done that, he probably would have been suspended for four games and he’d be back on the field. But because this has become a political issue, all of a sudden the commissioner has lost his stomach for it.”

I don’t know what the best part of the article is: Zeise’s comments or the fact that the apology from the newspaper was penned by the lovable Bob Smizik.

This fails to explain why Pitt coverage has always been a little bit behind from the P-G. Meanwhile, Kevin Gorman over at the Trib does an excellent job and keeps from being a complete homer.